| flipped / false photos and other oddities on EP/LP/CD covers |  photo shows Big Joe Williams in a position as if he plays his guitar left-handed (he actually was a right-handed guitarist see discussion / proof below) |
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| 1 | 1961 | T-Bone Walker: Rhythm and Blues 1 claimed content (T-Bone Walker): - Alimony Blues [Imperial 5153] - Life Is Too Short [Imperial 5153] - You Don't Understand [Imperial 5147] actual content (Archibald): - Stack-A-Lee [Imperial 5068] - Shake Baby Shake [Imperial 5082] - Ballin' With Archie [Imperial 5082] - Ballin' With Archie (alt tk) [Imperial unissued] content according to Peter Goldsmith's reader's letter published in Blues Unlimited 121 (September/October 1976), pp. 22-23
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| 2 | 1962 | Snuffy Jenkins (with Homer Sherrill): Carolina Bluegrass
cover photo flipped - reissued CD corrected
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| 3 | 1964 | Albert King: The Big Blues
Albert King was a left-handed guitarist
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| 4 | 1964 | Blues Classics by Kokomo Arnold / Peetie Wheatstraw picture on front cover does not show Peetie Wheatstraw, but Herman / Harmon Ray ("Peetie Wheatstraw's Buddy") from Paul Garon: The Devil's Son-In-Law - The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his Songs.- Studio Vista, London 1971, p. 63:
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| 5 | 1965 | Lightnin Hopkins Volume II
Lightnin' vs. T-Bone
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| 6 | 1965? | Snooks Eaglin: Blues From New Orleans Vol. 1
Snooks Eaglin discography
Storyville Records discography | ||
| 7 | 1966 | Lightnin' Hopkins: Lightnin' Strikes
Lightnin' Hopkins vs. Reverend Gary Davis
= Verve Folkways FTS 3031 | ||
| 8 | 1968 | Lightning / "Lightin" Hopkins: Free Form Patterns Lelan Rogers (International Records executive, brother of country music star Kenny Rogers) wrote some real funny liner notes: "Lightin Hopkins - The Hippie? No not really - Just plain LIGHTIN - Loved by the Hippies - and non Hippies - A symbol of freedom to everyone who loves music. All my life in the recording world I have heard of Lightin Hopkins - A real legend of music. Last year while visiting the Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco, I picked up three boys that were hitching a ride downtown. In the conversation with one of them he told me he had come from Boston, sold everything he owned to go to San Francisco. Everything he had except his Lightin Hopkins albums. He played Guitar with a band and had learned blues listening to all the Lightin Hopkins albums he could buy. Recently while in New York City at a club in the village I listened to antoher singer - guitarrist preform. Halfway thru his act he broke into his version of Lightin Hopkins blues - guitar licks he said that he had studied at the foot of a master - "Lightin Hopkins". It is no wonder, having never met Lightin, that in January this year when Mansel Rubenstein, one of Lightin's closest friends called me and asked if I would like to record him- I literally jumped at the chance to go to the studio with the legend LIGHTIN HOPKINS. The contents of this album are truly Free Form Patterns of Lightin Hopkins - and as Lightin said to me when I questioned him about a few notes I thought were played wrong from his side men "MAN THAT IS THE BLUES - THAT'S LIGHTIN BLUES" Lelan Rogers
"When I played the command Performance for the Queen of England. I said, QUEEN LADY, I'm sure glad to meet you. and if you'll just sit down over there you'll hear something you ain't never heard before. and I backed up and sit down on a stool and hit that first note so hard, you could hear it clean across the water". [OCRed by Alan Balfour; spelling mistakes are not as a result of poor OCRing but exactly as is!]
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| 9 | 1972 | Funny Papa Smith: The Original Howling Wolf 1930-31 photo-flipping as a means of (Nick Perls') artistic expression
... and yes, I know that this actually isn't J.T. 'Funny Papa' Smith, but more likely 'Black Ace' Karo/Kyro Lemon Turner ;-)
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| 10 | 1972 | Little Milton: Greatest Hits
Little Milton was a right-handed guitarist
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| 11 | 1973 | Shirley Griffith: Mississippi Blues liner notes by Stephen Calt having nothing to do whatsoever with Shirley Griffith
Blue Goose Records discography Shirley Griffith discography
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| 12 | 1976 | Albert King: Travelin' To California
Albert King was a left-handed guitarist
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| 13 | 1976 | Muddy Waters Live at Jazz Jamboree '76 Poljazz PSJ 80 / Moon Records MCD 017-2 tracks: - Blow Wind Blow - What's A Matter With A Meal - Kansas City - Caldonia - Screamin' And Crying - Got My Mojo Working - Gabbage Man Poljazz CD 10 tracks: - Floyd's Guitar Blues - G.P.S. Boogie - Baby Please Don't Go - Soon Forgotten - Corrina, Corrina - (I'm your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Blow Wind Blow - What's A Matter With A Meal - Kansas City - Caldonia - Screamin' & Cryin' - I Got My Mojo Working - Gabbage Man Poljazz PSJ 80
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| 14 | 1977 | Bob Baxter's Guitar Workshop
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| 15 | 1987 | Chris Bouchillon: The Original Talking Blues Man cover painting of LP wrong way round - Bouchillon obviously wasn't left-handed
Chris Bouchillon discography | ||
| 15a | 1988 | John Lee Hooker: Folk Blues
take a close look at the track list notes by Jacques Demêtre | ||
| 16 | 1991 | Jimmy Witherspoon: Cry The Blues
Has a Muddy Waters photo on front cover
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| 17 | 1991
1996 | Big Joe Williams
Big Joe Williams & Friends
Session for original photo obviously has been arranged so that Big Joe - a right-handed guitarist - is holding his guitar 'upside down' (bass strings at the bottom !!!). Some album covers show the photo 'flipped' (as if he was actually playing - which he isn't - see also finger position); such as the Document CD. Some leave it as is (e.g., the Rykodisc CD), even if it looks as if Big Joe was left-handed
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| 18 | 1993 | Big Joe Williams: Blues From The South Side
Front cover of first issue had photo of Joe Williams (former Count Basie vocalist), not Big Joe Williams
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| 18a | 1994 | The James Cotton Blues Band: 'Fore Day Blues
- James Cotton vs. Charles Lloyd
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| 19 | Sonny Boy Williamson I and II There were two blues artists by the name of Sonny Boy Williamson:
I John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson (1914 - 1948)
II Sonny Boy Williamson (1899 - 1965; real name: Rice Miller)
Some record companies don't seem to be able to distinguish between those two artists and place pictures of the 'false one' on album covers containing the music of the other one. The right column shows a few of those covers (no claim to be exhaustive).
SBW I cover
SBW II covers
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| 20 | 1996 | Nothing But The Blues
The infamous "History" series: - Robert Johnson vs. Louis Jordan - Sonny Boy Williamson I vs. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Mississippi John Hurt vs. Son House
- Big Bill Broonzy vs. John Lee Hooker 2 CD sets
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| 20a | 1997 | The Very Best of Earl King (1955-1960): Earl's Pearls
Earl King vs. Earl 'Conolly' King
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| 21 | 1997 | Lightnin' Slim: King of the Louisiana Swamp Blues
Lightnin' Slim was a right-handed guitarist (as shown below) cover photo flipped:
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| 22 | 1998 | Here Me Talkin' [sic] The Essential Recordings of Original Blues Bosses
innernet speak
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| 23 | 2009 | The Very Best of Walter Davis
Walter Davis vs. Juke Boy Bonner
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| 24 | 201? | Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band I'm Feeling Alright
- Big Mama Thornton vs. Big Maybelle
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Archibald 
Funny Papa Smith 
thanks to Bert van Oortmarssen, Byron Foulger, 'Doc Brainerd', Erik Trauner, Ray Templeton, Fernando Toral, Herman Bekker, Keith Randall, Charlie Lange and Markus Scherer for a/odditions
| # | oddities | sources | ||
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| 1 | Hound Dog Taylor's left hand |
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| 2 | Mance Lipscomb's 'teethiz'
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| 3 | Walter Wolfman Washington without 'fronties'  . . . in case someone is asking, where his stage name originally came from . . . |
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